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Agents

11 Sept 20268 min read

Building a Personal AI OS: File Watchers, Local IPC and Daemonised Agents

A terminal agent is a tool you visit. An AI OS is a set of small daemons that react to things happening on your machine. The difference is not the model — it is the event bus, the queue, and the discipline to keep every piece boring.

1 Sept 20268 min read

Context Window Engineering: Compaction, Retrieval and Why Long Sessions Degrade

A million-token window did not solve the problem, it moved it. Attention is not uniform, irrelevant context actively costs accuracy, and the skill that matters now is deciding what an agent is allowed to see.

14 Aug 20267 min read

Hardening Agent Sandboxes: MicroVMs, gVisor and WebAssembly for Untrusted Code

An AI agent running shell commands is an arbitrary code execution primitive you installed on purpose. Here is the isolation ladder — container, gVisor, Firecracker, WebAssembly — what each one actually stops, and what it costs per sandbox.

11 Aug 20269 min read

Deterministic Multi-Agent Orchestration: Escaping the Infinite ReAct Loop

Autonomous coding agents fail in a predictable way: context poisoning inside a freeform reason-act loop. The fix is not a better prompt — it is a finite state machine with programmatic gates, scoped tool access per phase, and automatic rollback.